SP wife killing: SP’s ‘informant’ among two arrested
The police on Tuesday disclosed the arrests of two suspects, including one who reportedly supplied a firearm used in the killing of police superintendent Babul Akter’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chittagong on June 5.
Industries asked to help BCSIR
Scientists called upon the industries of feed, animal health, food processing, marketing and pharmaceuticals to help Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research through conducting researches and laboratory tests of their products.
B’desh frozen fish exporters already feeling Brexit pinch
The British move to leave EU has already hit Bangladesh’s frozen fish sector with export consignments worth nearly Tk 100 crore getting stuck as UK buyers asked not to make any shipment following Brexit referendum.
Govt set to raise investment limit for individual taxpayers for rebate
Investment limit for getting income tax rebate by individual taxpayers is set to be increased to 25 per cent from the proposed 20 per cent in the budget for next fiscal year, officials said.
Banking sector thriving on strong economy: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the country’s banking sector is thriving on the strong national economy.
Khaleda tells AL to learn from Britain
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday asked the ruling Awami League to take lessons from Britain and hand over power to a neutral government in order to fulfil people’s aspiration for a free and fair election.
Around 75,000 people marooned by flood
Around 75,000 people of 200-char area in the district have been marooned by monsoon flood in Kurigram district due to onrush of flood water.
Charges pressed against BNP leader Quayum, 6 others in Tavella killing
Charges were pressed on Monday against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader M Abdul Quayum and six others in the case filed for the killing of of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella in capital’s Gulshan area in September 2015.
Khaleda calls AL ‘party of militants’
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday called the ruling Awami League a ‘party of militants’ and said local and foreign arms and ammunition are found on them.
RESISTING MILITANCY: Movements called for
Pro-Awami League intellectuals on Sunday called for social, cultural and political movements of the pro-independence forces to resist ‘militancy’ and secret killings committed by fundamentalists in the country.
